Productivity is a measure of the dollar value produced by the median worker in a field. You compare productivity of two different times by multiplying the dollar value produced by each worker by an inflation factor. So several things can be improperly measured: the amount of value produced by the worker, the inflation factor, how many people are in a field, etc.
I beleive productivity has increased, and the reason that it is not measured is because the value of the dollar has actually been increasing. Economists use the Consumer Price Index among other tools to judge the value of a dollar. This usually means seeing how much a dollar will buy you today as opposed to yesterday.
One thing that the CPI cannot measure is the quality of the goods you are buying. If a car lasts twice as long now as it did 10 years ago, is it not worth 1.5 to 2 times as much? If a car only costs 1.25 times as much now as it did 10 years ago, then then we have experienced _deflation_, the value of the dollar has actually increased rather than decreased. So a worker who built a car today is only credited with the current cost of the car, when in reality the price of the car has remained about the same while its value has increased dramatically.
Also, the CPI does not take into account the value of being able to buy new alternatives to old goods that can be much cheaper, and new goods and services that never existed before. VCR's made viewing movies much cheaper, but the CPI failed to properly take this into account.
So my basic argument boils down to: the productivity increases have not manifested themselves as much in quantity of goods produced per man-hour but the quality and variety of goods.
Just like any negative statement about a person that is obviously false and satirical is not libel, any promise in advertising that is obviously false and satirical is not false advertising.
I am sure it is obvious to you that pepsi isn't in the business of giving away warplanes with the capacity to bomb and strafe small countries.:)
Given that space-shifting is now legal, it becomes possible for non-profit websites to legally distribute ripped music, I think. If they require everyone who enters their site to acknowledge that they must own whatever CD the songs they are downloading comes from, then that might be construed as fair use.
The web sites are only providing a convenience: the music the user already owns in mp3 format. It seems to me this might stand up in court if someone has the uhmmm... courage to go up against the RIAA.
Given that space-shifting is now legal, it becomes possible for non-profit websites to legally distribute ripped music, I think. If they require everyone who enters their site to acknowledge that they must own whatever CD the songs they are downloading comes from, then that might be construed as fair use.
The web sites are only providing a convenience: the music the user already owns in mp3 format. It seems to me this might stand up in court if someone has the uhmmm... courage to go up against the RIAA.
"Yes, I noticed the same thing. If someone were infectin cattle with e. coli bacteria, they would be introducing a problem that did not exist before hand. "
I disagree with your point about problems that already exist. Correct me if I'm wrong, but I was under the impression Back Orifice is only as powerful as the user permissions of the account used to install it (exploiting the same API's any user with those priviledges could do anyway.)
How brilliant, someone gives you the keys to his house, you make copies and give them to all your punk friends to clean the place out and burn it down.
Back Orifice exposes that NT does allow users with proper permission to do whatever they want. That's a design decision, not a defect.
Few superpowers gracefully steps down into a smaller role after they become a lesser power. We had to dismantle and rebuild Germany and Japan after World War II. Japan today has a strong cultural prejudice. They still won't apologize to China or even admit to the rape of Nanking during WWII. Opposition parties in Russia feed off of the popular disillusionment that followed the USSR's dramatic last gasps.
Should the US fall, is unlikely to happen in our lifetimes given our many resources and sheer land area, we will almost certainly be more craven and backward-looking than the French are today.
Nah; my Palm IIIx has the same "feature". When the unit experiences a slight impact from the spring side, the springs may allow the batteries to come unconnected from the unit for a moment; having both springs on the same side means there's one fewer side for a hit to cause this. The springs are on the side that would not break the battery connection if it slipped out of your left hand, the hand a righty would most likely drop it out of. Pretty smart.
You goof, this was 23 years ago. HP was hardcore into business machines, competing with the likes of IBM.
HP has largely the same culture now as it did then, and an office and a suit and tie were almost as rare as they are now. And HP was not "hardcore" into business machines. HP was primarily Test & Measurement at that time.
This point is just a minor annoyance for me, given the penchant of the perpetrators of that movie for dramatizing the already-dramatic.
There was no need for all the spin and color they added at the expense of historical accuracy; the true story of Silicon Valley and the personal computer revolution is interesting and strange enough to stand on its own two feet. No embellishment is necessary.
-- My opinions are my own and all that. Feel free to attack me personally if you're too slow to attack my arguments.
I think you give Allen too much credit. Keep in mind he invests in things like Ticketmaster and Cable Companies, two of the most hated institutions in the US (at least by Pearl Jam.)
And by the way, being an engineer at HP, I take exception to the movie's portrayal of an HP manager when Woz to get approved to sell the Apple I. We wouldn't be caught dead in a suit and tie, and no one I know has an actual office with a door. From engineer to division manager, we all have cubicles.
All I can think of is perhaps that was a contracted lawyer he was talking to, but if so, where was the engineer to tell the lawyer what to think?
Check out Jeffery Wells' Column on Mr Showbiz. I pretty much agree with what he has to say: DiCaprio looks like he could be Jake Lloyd grown up, he really is a good actor at showing rage and anger, (gee, do you think that could be important?) and because he looks young for his age, he would be at about the right age to be Anakin.
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Productivity is a measure of the dollar value produced by the median worker in a field. You compare productivity of two different times by multiplying the dollar value produced by each worker by an inflation factor. So several things can be improperly measured: the amount of value produced by the worker, the inflation factor, how many people are in a field, etc.
I beleive productivity has increased, and the reason that it is not measured is because the value of the dollar has actually been increasing. Economists use the Consumer Price Index among other tools to judge the value of a dollar. This usually means seeing how much a dollar will buy you today as opposed to yesterday.
One thing that the CPI cannot measure is the quality of the goods you are buying. If a car lasts twice as long now as it did 10 years ago, is it not worth 1.5 to 2 times as much? If a car only costs 1.25 times as much now as it did 10 years ago, then then we have experienced _deflation_, the value of the dollar has actually increased rather than decreased. So a worker who built a car today is only credited with the current cost of the car, when in reality the price of the car has remained about the same while its value has increased dramatically.
Also, the CPI does not take into account the value of being able to buy new alternatives to old goods that can be much cheaper, and new goods and services that never existed before. VCR's made viewing movies much cheaper, but the CPI failed to properly take this into account.
So my basic argument boils down to: the productivity increases have not manifested themselves as much in quantity of goods produced per man-hour but the quality and variety of goods.
You're kidding, right?
Just like any negative statement about a person that is obviously false and satirical is not libel, any promise in advertising that is obviously false and satirical is not false advertising.
I am sure it is obvious to you that pepsi isn't in the business of giving away warplanes with the capacity to bomb and strafe small countries. :)
Given that space-shifting is now legal, it becomes possible for non-profit websites to legally distribute ripped music, I think. If they require everyone who enters their site to acknowledge that they must own whatever CD the songs they are downloading comes from, then that might be construed as fair use.
The web sites are only providing a convenience: the music the user already owns in mp3 format. It seems to me this might stand up in court if someone has the uhmmm... courage to go up against the RIAA.
Just my opinion and all...
Given that space-shifting is now legal, it becomes possible for non-profit websites to legally distribute ripped music, I think. If they require everyone who enters their site to acknowledge that they must own whatever CD the songs they are downloading comes from, then that might be construed as fair use.
The web sites are only providing a convenience: the music the user already owns in mp3 format. It seems to me this might stand up in court if someone has the uhmmm... courage to go up against the RIAA.
Just my opinion and all...
I disagree with your point about problems that already exist. Correct me if I'm wrong, but I was under the impression Back Orifice is only as powerful as the user permissions of the account used to install it (exploiting the same API's any user with those priviledges could do anyway.)
How brilliant, someone gives you the keys to his house, you make copies and give them to all your punk friends to clean the place out and burn it down.
Back Orifice exposes that NT does allow users with proper permission to do whatever they want. That's a design decision, not a defect.
Few superpowers gracefully steps down into a smaller role after they become a lesser power. We had to dismantle and rebuild Germany and Japan after World War II. Japan today has a strong cultural prejudice. They still won't apologize to China or even admit to the rape of Nanking during WWII. Opposition parties in Russia feed off of the popular disillusionment that followed the USSR's dramatic last gasps.
Should the US fall, is unlikely to happen in our lifetimes given our many resources and sheer land area, we will almost certainly be more craven and backward-looking than the French are today.
Nah; my Palm IIIx has the same "feature". When the unit experiences a slight impact from the spring side, the springs may allow the batteries to come unconnected from the unit for a moment; having both springs on the same side means there's one fewer side for a hit to cause this.
The springs are on the side that would not break the battery connection if it slipped out of your left hand, the hand a righty would most likely drop it out of. Pretty smart.
HP has largely the same culture now as it did then, and an office and a suit and tie were almost as rare as they are now. And HP was not "hardcore" into business machines. HP was primarily Test & Measurement at that time.
This point is just a minor annoyance for me, given the penchant of the perpetrators of that movie for dramatizing the already-dramatic.
There was no need for all the spin and color they added at the expense of historical accuracy; the true story of Silicon Valley and the personal computer revolution is interesting and strange enough to stand on its own two feet. No embellishment is necessary.
--
My opinions are my own and all that.
Feel free to attack me personally if you're too slow to attack my arguments.
I think you give Allen too much credit. Keep in mind he invests in things like Ticketmaster and Cable Companies, two of the most hated institutions in the US (at least by Pearl Jam.)
And by the way, being an engineer at HP, I take exception to the movie's portrayal of an HP manager when Woz to get approved to sell the Apple I. We wouldn't be caught dead in a suit and tie, and no one I know has an actual office with a door. From engineer to division manager, we all have cubicles.
All I can think of is perhaps that was a contracted lawyer he was talking to, but if so, where was the engineer to tell the lawyer what to think?
Check out Jeffery Wells' Column on Mr Showbiz. I pretty much agree with what he has to say: DiCaprio looks like he could be Jake Lloyd grown up, he really is a good actor at showing rage and anger, (gee, do you think that could be important?) and because he looks young for his age, he would be at about the right age to be Anakin.